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Portrait Project

Jourdan Henry

I sat at a square, stainless-steel table that was cold to the touch. Two New York City Police Department detectives were on either side of me. I was interrogated as they sought to uncover why a juice box was missing or how a window was... View Details

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Pam Chan

insisted that she "at least check out the application process. I sat in on an entrepreneurship class at HBS. The case replicated experiences I had with a client – I realized cases spoke to real-life experiences I could... View Details

Keywords: CPG; Tech

20 Sep 2010
Research & Ideas

Power Posing: Fake It Until You Make It

it's how they perform in a job interview or how they participate in class." Cuddy acknowledges that there are moderating factors in how easily some groups can use traditional power poses. It would run counter to social norms, for example, if a woman wearing a... View Details

Keywords: by Julia Hanna

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Profiles - MBA

fast. It was only after working on my own startup, when I suddenly found myself needing to learn to code, design, and get viral on Reddit in the span of three days that I realized how fast 'fast' can be. I sat in on my first HBS case... View Details

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Events - Business & Environment

Reynolds, MPA '01, EY Americas SaT Sustainability Leader and EY Parthenon Education Practice Leader, Oliver Badenhorst, MBA '20, Principal, Boston Consulting Group, and Naomi Davy, AB '22, Associate, Coho Climate Advisors who will reflect... View Details

Portrait Project

Salaar Shaikh

loved ones full of laughter and merriment; now, with no other Muslims in my program, and none known to me in a foreign city, I felt homesick and alone. I sat in a restaurant at my table-for-one, eating my chicken rice and vegetables at... View Details

26 Apr 2024
Blog Post

How I Spent my 2+2 Deferral: Matthew Young

We sat down with Matthew Young (MBA 2025) to hear more about how he spent his deferral years. Why did you decide to apply to HBS via the 2+2 deferred admissions process? I decided to apply to HBS via 2+2 following my junior year of... View Details

13 Feb 2012
Research & Ideas

The Case Against Racial Colorblindness

researchers conducted an experiment in which white participants engaged in a two-person guessing game designed—unbeknownst to them—to measure their tendencies toward attempted racial colorblindness. Each participant was given a stack of photographs, which included 32... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel

Portrait Project

Nagi Otgonshar

mother had to go out in the snow to buy candles, so that I had the luxury to study at night while others sat in darkness. I did not realize that the only way she could feed us was by walking ten miles to her two-hectare vegetable plot... View Details

26 Jan 2022
News

Making Peace with Anger

hardest thing for me to tell people about. And in admitting that I had a very significant failure, what it did was it made me more human to both my colleagues and my friends. I sat down with four business school classmates—great, great... View Details

17 Dec 2014
Research & Ideas

How Our Brain Determines if the Product is Worth the Price

increase the likelihood of buying products, but only if the decision was related more to the product's usefulness than to pure emotional desire. Water Filtration Pitchers And Batteries To that end, the researchers designed a follow-up study in which 83 participants... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Retail

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Shira Asa-El

absolute opponents. Being part of the HBS community is like Being a global citizen. I have never before sat in a room with people from so many different countries, nor have I even had the opportunity to do so. Professionally, I feel that... View Details

28 Jun 2021
Blog Post

7 Things HBS Taught Me the Last 2 Years

week), I sat in Klarman Hall with 900 new admits. Surrounding me were veterans, entrepreneurs, scientists, activists, artists, among many others. As someone who started business school a few years later than some people choose to and... View Details

03 Feb 2012
HBS Seminar

Dr. Regina Dugan, Director, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA)

01 Jul 2020
Blog Post

How SVMP Helped Me Take My Next Steps (2+2) and Find Myself

I am becoming. The power of that memoir title never really hit me until I sat to write this blog post. I don’t mean to quote Michelle Obama in making that statement (I mean there are definitely worse people to quote), but it’s a powerful... View Details

15 Jul 2020
Blog Post

From Teacher to Student: The Important Ways HBS Professors Showed Me How to Lead

directly from the airport to catch our Section J dance at Ekta, the annual HBS South Asian show. There was also the time when Professor Jon Jachimowicz sat and listened to me agonize over my summer internship choices and gave me valuable... View Details

23 Oct 2019
Blog Post

How to Talk Gooder in Business and Life

helps scholars and firms capture and analyze conversation data online. We sat down with Professor Brooks to discuss the "How to Talk Gooder" course and to get some advice on that very topic. What is the class “How to Talk... View Details

19 Mar 2014
Research & Ideas

A Brand Manager’s Guide to Losing Control

strategies that brand managers have used in order to cope with it. Avery recently sat down with HBS Working Knowledge to discuss their findings. According to the paper, consumers are operating in four concurrent Web-based eras: The Age of... View Details

Keywords: by Carmen Nobel; Advertising

22 Apr 2002
Research & Ideas

Does Spirituality Drive Success?

people, he said. Providing charity with dignity is "giving them a hand up, rather than a handout." Rasul wanted Ballard to contribute to the community, and for employees to become involved as well. But when a partnership with United Way failed to elicit much... View Details

Keywords: by Martha Lagace, Sean Silverthorne & Wendy Guild

Portrait Project

Sara Mattei Gentili

I don’t recall a moment in my life when I had that comforting feeling of belonging. What I do remember perfectly, is the first time I thought I was odd. My kindergarten classmates played in the school’s courtyard, and I sat in a corner... View Details

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